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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics Cover
★★★★☆ 4.20 • Goodreads

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  • Middle Eastern Politics
  • Progressive Critique
  • Human Rights Advocacy

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Craved unflinching moral honesty in Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart? Except for Palestine by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick names the contradictions next.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Exposes progressive hypocrisy w/ receipts & data
  • Ideological turf wars dissected—no sacred cows
  • Diaspora identity tensions made viscerally clear
  • Turns your righteous anger into tactical clarity

If Beinart's moral reckoning cracked open your certainties about identity and justice, Hill and Plitnick deliver the next indispensable confrontation: why does the progressive movement carve out exceptions when Palestine enters the conversation? This isn't polemic—it's rigorous, evidence-laden dissection of the blind spots that haunt leftist coalitions, armed with the same unflinching honesty that made Beinart's work feel like intellectual therapy.

This is the confrontation progressive readers need, not the one they expect.

Here's the book that validates your discomfort at activist gatherings, naming the ideological inconsistencies you've sensed but couldn't articulate. It transforms your alienation into ammunition, turning divisive debates into opportunities for ethical evolution.

This is the confrontation progressive readers need, not the one they expect.

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What Readers Are Saying

"This is a great introduction...it really packs in a lot of information, but it's concise and direct..." Tara, Goodreads
"This book takes a look at how US foreign policy...has been complicit to the atrocities committed against Palestinians." Drea, Goodreads
"this is the right book for you...the last chapter on Trump’s foreign policy is worth it alone." Carolynn Jimenez, Goodreads

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